She then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince took up most carefully. She got home, but quite out of breath, without her carriage, and in her old clothes, having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers, fellow to the one she had dropped. The guards at the palace gate were asked if they had not seen a princess go out, and they replied they had seen nobody go out but a young girl, very meanly dressed, and who had more the air of a poor country girl than of a young lady.
When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them if they had had a pleasant time, and if the fine lady had been there. They said, further, that he had done nothing but look at her all the time, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful owner of the glass slipper. They began to try it on the princesses, then on the duchesses, and then on all the ladies of the Court; but in vain. It was brought to the two sisters, who did all they possibly could to thrust a foot into the slipper, but they could not succeed.
Cinderella, who saw this, and knew her slipper, said to them, laughing:—. Cinderella by Edmund Dulac. Her sisters burst out a-laughing, and began to banter her. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every lady try it on. He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
The astonishment of her two sisters was great, but it was still greater when Cinderella pulled out of her pocket the other slipper and put it on her foot. And now her two sisters found her to be that beautiful lady they had seen at the ball. They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all their ill treatment of her. Cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, said that she forgave them with all her heart, and begged them to love her always. She was conducted to the young Prince, dressed as she was.
He thought her more charming than ever, and, a few days after, married her. Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, gave her two sisters a home in the palace, and that very same day married them to two great lords of the Court. That's the Disney Cinderella, the one from the animated film and the new remake in theaters right now. The real Cinderella isn't so easily defined.
She is a character who weaves together centuries of storytelling and most human cultures. There are two faces to Cinderella: there's the European folk tale that evolved into the modern-day story of a girl in a big blue ball gown, and there's the centuries-old plot that has been passed between cultures for millennia.
The story of overcoming oppression and marrying into another social class to be saved from a family that doesn't love or appreciate you is an incredibly powerful one, too powerful to be contained by the story we all know. At the center of most Cinderella stories whether they use that name for their protagonist or not is one thing: a persecuted heroine who rises above her social station through marriage.
The first recorded story featuring a Cinderella-like figure dates to Greece in the sixth century BCE. In that ancient story , a Greek courtesan named Rhodopis has one of her shoes stolen by an eagle, who flies it all the way across the Mediterranean and drops it in the lap of an Egyptian king. Taking the shoe drop as a sign from the heavens literally and metaphorically , the king goes on a quest to find the owner of the shoe.
When he finds Rhodopis, he marries her, lifting her from her lowly status to the throne. Another one of the earliest known Cinderella stories is the ninth-century Chinese fairy tale Ye Xian , in which a young girl named Ye Xian is granted one wish from some magical fishbones, which she uses to create a gown in the hopes of finding a husband.
Like Rhodopis' tale, a monarch comes in possession of the shoe this time, the shoes have a gold fish-scale pattern and goes on a quest to find the woman whose tiny feet will fit the shoe. Ye Xian's beauty convinces the king to marry her, and the mean stepmother is crushed by stones in her cave home.
In total, more than versions of the Cinderella story have been found just in Europe, and the Cinderella we know best comes from there France, specifically. The first version of Cinderella that bears a significant similarity to the most famous version emerged in the 17th century, when a story called Cenerentola was published in a collection of Italian short stories.
Cenerentola has all the ingredients of the modern-day tale — the wicked stepmother and stepsisters, the magic, and the missing slipper — but it's darker and just a bit more magical. In the story, a woman named Zezolla escapes the king, who wants to marry her, at two separate celebrations — before he finally catches her at the third one and prevents her from leaving.
Instead of a story of requited love, Cenerentola is a story of forced marriage and six very wicked stepsisters. Sixty years later, the Italian tale got a French twist and became the story we know. In Cendrillon, Charles Perrault — a French writer credited with inventing the fairy tale — cast the form that Cinderella would take for the next years.
He introduced the glass slipper, the pumpkin, and the fairy godmother minus the bibbidi bobbidi boo. This is the version Disney later adapted into its animated classic. Circa Cinderella, having tried on the glass slipper, produces its fellow. Etching by George Cruikshank as an illustration for Grimm's "Aschenputtel. The Brothers Grimm also collected the tale in their famous fairy tale compendium. Yeh-Shen goes on to meet and marry the King, thanks to the spirit of the fish, and the magic of fish bones the fish is a symbol of prosperity.
Zezolla is banished to the kitchen and loses her given name, becoming Cenerentola. That is, until magic prevails and she charms the prince at the traditional soiree, and they're reunited afterward thanks to footwear.
Germany In , the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published Kinder-und Hausmarchen , which is where Cinderella first made her appearance in Germany. This time she was Aschenputtel translation: "Ash Fool" , a girl who loses her mother, braves the abuse of her stepfamily, then cries so much at her mother's grave that a magical trees grows there.
Fortunately, that tree helps outfit Aschenputtel for the ball, where she meets her prince and loses her shoe. When the prince comes to their home, the stepsisters each try to fool him — one cuts off her toe to make her foot fit in the shoe, the other cuts off her heel. The prince notices all the excess blood, and eventually Cinderella is found. And, then birds peck out the stepsisters' eyes at the wedding, and they go blind forever. Russia Similar to Germany's dramatic version, Russia's folktale of Baba Yaga and Vasilisa written down in the mids is a little more adult.
Centered around a girl named Vasilisa , it sees its protagonist sent to a witch Baba Yaga by an evil stepmother who assumes Vasilisa will die. She thrives instead, despite the witch's hut made of human bones. Vasilisa survives her brush with death and reunites with her dad with the help of a magic doll. But, not before Baba Yaga severely abuses the cat whose only job was to kill Vasilisa and — you guessed it — scratch out her eyes.
United States True, the movie borrowed heavily from the French story, but Disney's animated Cinderella was actually an answer to post-war culture and fashion, by acting as a guide to the New Look.
Ultimately, on top of making the film more kid-friendly by piggybacking on the magic animals found in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty , it was ultimately a marketing tool, dictating the merits of consumerism since Cinderella's dress was based on designs by Dior. Today, the phrase Cinderella story is used quite liberally; in her article cited above, Linda Holmes goes as far as to suggest that modern superheroes are examples of Cinderella stories.
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